Entries from October 2007

October 31, 2007

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Warning over net address limits
Internet Service Providers urgently need to roll out the next generation of net addresses for online devices, internet pioneer Vint Cerf has said. Every device that goes online is allocated a unique IP address but the pool of numbers is finite and due to
(tags: Internet)

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October 29, 2007

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BBC NEWS | Education | Schools warned off Microsoft deal
The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.
(tags: Microsoft)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Gears of War wins Joystick awards
Third person shooter Gears of War has scooped the “Ultimate Game of the Year Award” at [...]

October 29, 2007

Twitter this … for Pete’s sake

Quommm …. on.   Cold coffee in Berlin was fun and the lasting memory of check point Charlie was not the rush toward freedom but the use of a twitter wall.   The Berlin twitter wall was my first taste of the new transparency as a face-to-face medium and I am not sure if I agree.  In [...]

October 26, 2007

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Virtual worlds threaten ‘values’
Lord Puttnam has said that the growing number of toy-themed virtual worlds aimed at young people risks undermining the basic human values we wish to instill in children. He fears that all children will learn from these virtual spaces is that they are fir
(tags: VirtualWorlds)

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October 24, 2007

Conversations and super losers

Cold coffee has been a rare luxury of late with boot camps, Roman holidays but most of all the launch of new thinking around the impact of mobile on the world. So what you yawn? Mobile is clearly something for kids, fads and Koreans.
Well if you believe Will Harris, the mobile dog is about to [...]

October 24, 2007

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FT.com / Companies / Telecoms – Post Office broadband pledge
The Post Office is entering the fiercely competitive broadband market and promising to poach customers from Carphone Warehouse and Tiscali. The company, part of the state-owned Royal Mail group, is aiming to have 1m broadband and fixed-line telephone cust
(tags: Broadband)

October 23, 2007

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‘Child judges’ aged 10 given the legal power to punish teenage thugs | the Daily Mail
Social networking sites are being urged to do more to protect young people. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP) wants the sites to install its “report abuse” button that connects people to police. CEOP research shows some sex [...]

October 22, 2007

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Games event highlights positives
The UK games industry is celebrating all that is positive in gaming in a week-long event taking place in London. The London Games Festival comes after the industry has been scrutinised by both the government and the media.
(tags: Gaming)

FT.com / Companies / Telecoms – Orange shakes up [...]

October 17, 2007

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BBC NEWS | World | Report highlights blog censorship
Bloggers are now finding themselves prey to censorship from repressive governments as much as journalists in traditional media, a report says. Reporters Without Borders’ annual study of press freedom says China is one of the worst offenders, having impris
(tags: Blogging)

BBC NEWS | Business | MySpace starts Skype [...]

October 12, 2007

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Google ‘dominates world search’
Google powered more than half of all search requests carried out around the world in August, according to a report. A global study by analysts comScore revealed that more than 61 billion searches were performed by more than 750 million users in the month.
(tags: Google)

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